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  • baldozer
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2012
    • 752

    #16
    Originally posted by britissh
    60 Alluring Facts About . . .
    Human Attraction


    Studies show that neonatal nurses tend to devote more attention to more attractive, healthy infants with normal birth weights. They devote less attention to less attractive babies with low Apgar scores.b
    Researchers have noted that mothers tend to give more attention to their most attractive children, who then exhibit better traits and more socialized behavior than their less attractive siblings.b
    Teachers expect more attractive children to perform well, leading to more attention, less punishment, and better grades.b
    Regardless of the number of sexual partners a man or woman has been with, the more attractive a presumed new sexual partner is, the less likely a person is to take safe-sex precautions.c
    Birth control pills can alter a woman's mating preferences
    Birth control pills affect both a woman’s hormone levels and to whom they become attracted. Specifically, women taking birth control pills are more attracted to men with more pronounced masculine features than those who aren’t taking the pill. However, masculine traits are linked to higher testosterone levels, aggressive behavior, and even higher-than-average divorce rates.c
    The child of a couple in their 30s tends to find older faces more attractive than a child born to parents in their 20s.b
    Several studies have shown that college students tend to rate their teachers’ performance more on the basis of physical attractiveness than on the content of their lectures or on their ability to communicate.b
    Exceptionally attractive women are at a disadvantage when seeking a job associated with particularly masculine qualities. For example, if a more attractive woman and a less attractive woman compete for a job as a tow truck driver or operating a switchboard, the more attractive woman rarely wins the job. Researchers suggest that a highly attractive woman is perceived as less capable of meeting the job’s requirement for masculine qualities than an unattractive woman.c
    Studies show that physically attractive people tend to have better paying jobs in higher-level positions than do their less attractive counterparts. This preference is collectively referred to as “beauty bias.”c
    Attractive defendants are not only less likely to be convicted, but when they are, they are likely to suffer less severe punishment than an unattractive person convicted of the same offense.b
    A defendant accused of raping an unattractive victim is less likely to be found guilty than one accused of raping an attractive victim.b
    Attractive politicians typically receive more news coverage than less attractive politicians.b
    Researchers have found that exposure to idealized body images lowers women’s satisfaction with their own attractiveness.b
    Vaginal cosmetic surgery is becoming increasingly popular
    Thousands of women are seeking elective surgeries that offer more attractive private parts. For example, an increasing number of women are paying thousands of dollars for genital sculpting, such as labiaplasty (surgery on the labia), hymenoplasty (surgically repairing or replacing the hymen to give the illusion of virginity), augmentation labiaplasty (fat is removed from another part of the patient and transferred to the labia majora), and vulvar lipoplasty (removing unwanted fat from the mons pubis or labia majora).b
    To a child, physical attractiveness is often associated with being smarter and friendlier. Studies show that children often will select playmates based on physical attractiveness.c
    When kids misbehave and must be disciplined, being more attractive means less punishment. In other words, an attractive child’s severe transgression is less likely to be seen as a display of chronic antisocial behavior than an equally severe offense by an unattractive child.b
    Television news directors are far more likely to air the killing or injury of an attractive victim than a plain one.b
    Aristotle noted that “personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”b
    According to the Hebrew Bible, an Egyptian pharaoh was so attracted to the beauty of Abraham’s wife, Sarah, that he presented Abraham with sheep, oxen, asses, male and female slaves, she-asses, and camels.b
    To become more attractive in the Middle Ages, affluent noblewomen would swallow arsenic or dab bat’s blood on their skin to improve their complexion. As recently as the 18th century, American women washed themselves in the warm urine of a young boy to erase their freckles.c
    Charles Darwin noted a universal motive to become attractive even when it required “wonderfully great suffering.”c
    Cross-culturally, men consider a woman's appearance important
    Dr. David Buss, an evolutionary psychologist, recorded mating preferences for more than 10,000 people from 37 cultures and found that a woman’s physical attractiveness was at the top or near the top of every man’s list. He concluded that, therefore, nothing was more important to a marriage-minded woman than her good looks.c
    In virtually every culture, men find younger women more attractive than older ones, most likely because human females are able to reproduce for only a limited time.b
    In most cultures, women are more attracted to older men than they are to younger ones. Researchers explain that this is because men are capable of fathering children for nearly their entire adult lives and older men typically have more resources.b
    The pursuit to become more attractive is a $160 billion-a-year global industry that includes weight-loss programs, cosmetics, skin and hair care, perfumes, cosmetic surgery, health clubs, and hormone injections. Americans spend more money per year on beauty enhancements than they do on education.c
    To the ancient Hebrews and Christians, physical beauty was a reward from God and its opposite was punishment. In fact, physical attraction is mentioned several times in the Bible, such as the following: “Joseph was handsome in form and appearance” (Genesis 39.6), “[David was] . . . a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech and a handsome person” (1 Samuel 16:12), and “Now in all Israel there was no one who was praised as much as Absalom for his good looks” (2 Samuel 14:25).b
    Prehistoric humans appreciated the power of physical attractiveness. For example, the most famous femme of the Paleolithic Age, the Venus of Willendorf—a 25,000-year-old limestone statue—is a faceless, Rubenesque woman with luxuriously coiffed tresses.b
    Researchers note that young men are attracted to the hourglass figure, or a slender waist separating large breasts from generous hips. Researchers note a correlation between a woman’s hourglass figure and her reproductive ability.b
    A 2003 study showed that a woman’s face is most beautiful and alluring once a month, exactly when she is at the peak of her fertility.c
    Research has found that women prefer masculine-looking men when they are ovulating—but at other times of the month, they seek men with softer features, associated with more social and caring behavior.b
    Researchers have wondered why, if nature prefers well proportioned bodies and symmetrical faces, everyone is not beautiful? In other words, wouldn’t “ugly” people have been bred out of the population? The answer is that humans invented clothes and cosmetics to improve appearance.c
    Studies suggest that humans agree who is and isn’t attractive, both within and across ethnicity and culture. Researchers note that attraction is not merely in the eye of the beholder but that there are universal standards of attractiveness.c
    Even though both attractive and unattractive people exhibit positive behaviors and traits, studies show that attractive people exhibit more positive behaviors and traits than unattractive individuals.b
    A male rat prefers a variety sexual partners
    A male rat put into a cage with a previously unknown female rat usually begins their relationship with a frenzy of copulation. After a while, the male rate loses interest in sex and it’s hard to persuade it to copulate with the female. When a different female, however, is put in the cage, the male again begins copulation with the new rat—but again, only for a time. If this process is repeated with new females, the male will continue to copulate until it is totally exhausted, sometimes even beyond.c
    A landmark study in 1966 by the University of Minnesota–Minneapolis gathered a group of 664 student volunteers. The study showed that there was little or no difference between introverted and extroverted personalities when it came to being liked by a date. In other words, young college adults were primarily concerned about the physical attractiveness of their date.b
    Online dating research reveals that women are most concerned about a potential partner’s height, while men are more concerned about the weight of a possible date. Men even just an inch under the average height and women more than 20 pounds overweight have a tougher time getting a date.b
    Tall men have greater reproductive success than shorter men due to their greater ability to attract mates.b
    Women show a stronger attraction toward males who have a shape consistent with the ideal hunting physique: strong shoulders, narrow waists, and broad chests and shoulders (without being too bulky). Men with a higher shoulder-to-hip ratio reported having sex at an early age and with more sexual partners.c
    Researchers note that women perceive men with beards as having “the biological and social qualities that would enhance their value as husbands” and also consider them “more potent and more active, suggesting virility as well as physical attractiveness.” Additionally, female managers considered bearded men to be more competent. Male bosses, however, did not.c
    A recent study found that women tended to date men who smelled like their fathers.c
    Researchers have found that adrenaline makes a potential date more attractive.b
    Both men and women rated symmetrical members of the opposite sex as more attractive and in better health than their less symmetrical counterparts. Additionally, men with a higher degree of symmetry had more sexual partners than men of lower symmetry.c
    Estrogen slows bone growth in a woman’s lower face, chin, and brow, making her relatively smaller and shorter and her eyes more prominent. Women possessing these traits are typically viewed as more attractive because they help advertise reproductive health.b
    Research reports that symmetrical men smell better to women, especially if a woman is menstruating. Researchers note, however, that detection of these scents seems to be a subconscious reaction.b
    Researchers note that two people having similar genetics plays 34% of the role on friendship and mate selection. Additionally, if partners have similar genes, they are more likely to have a happy marriage.c
    Researchers note that women are more likely to limit sexual intercourse to relationships involving affection and the possibility of marriage. Women also place more emphasis than men do on their possible partner’s socioeconomic status. Therefore, status along with the willingness and ability to invest affection and resources in a relationship often outweighs the effects of physical attraction in a woman’s selection of a mate.b
    Some women prefer “bad boys” as sexual partners
    Researchers have found that many women, despite expressed preferences, actually want nice guys as friends or long-term boyfriends, but preferred “bad boys” who were more physically attractive and willing to manipulate women into sexual activities as sexual partners.b
    Studies note that sometimes those who have a high level of physical attractiveness seek less attractive mates in order to wield more power over them. In other words, less attractive people may attract more attractive mates because they are more likely to yield to their whims.c
    In 1939, men ranked physical attractiveness 14th on a list of 18 desirable mate characteristics, but 8th in 1996. For the same period, women’s value of a prospective husband’s physical attractiveness jumped from 17th place to 13th. Analysts point to the increase in visual media, TV, movies, the Internet, and virtual reality as a likely cause of the shift. There was a concomitant decrease in the value of refinement, neatness, and chastity for both men and women.c
    Chastity as a value factor in mate selection ranked 10th for men in 1939, but 16th in 1996. For women, it ranked 10th in 1939 and was next to last, 17th, in 1996. Researchers note the increased dissemination of birth control devices and the sexual revolution of the 1960s as a major influence of the shift.c
    Infants from 2 to 6 months of age prefer to look longer at faces rated as attractive by adults than at faces rated as unattractive by adults.b
    Women who wear red are more attractive to men
    Men find women who wear red more attractive. In fact, a woman in red is more likely to be asked on a date and have more money spent on her. Coincidentally, the buttocks of some animals turn red when they are ready to mate.a
    According to Cosmopolitan magazine, the blends of lavender and pumpkin scents make women more attractive to men. Women are attracted to the smell of cucumbers or black licorice.a
    People may look more attractive when a person is drunk because the drunken person is less likely to notice the asymmetry of a face.a
    Women are less attracted to men with a “belly.” Men with a large amount of abdominal fat have lower levels of testosterone, which means lower sex drive and lower fertility.b
    Men are more attracted to women whose bone structure is similar to their own mothers. Researchers call this “sexual imprinting,” which means faces we find attractive as adults were determined in childhood.c
    Soft materials such as fur, rayon, and silk accentuate a woman’s softer, feminine nature and can trigger an intense, protective response in men.a
    Women rated men more attractive if other women were smiling at him
    Women are more likely to judge a man to be more attractive when they see another woman looking and smiling at him. For a male, the same man becomes less attractive.c
    Studies show that a baby’s “attractiveness” rises with age from birth, peaks around the age of 9-11 months, and then declines again. Researchers speculate that babies close to their first birthdays are cuter because they need more attention as they are becoming more mobile and more prone to accidents. Babies that are assessed as “cute” have large eyes, small noses and mouths, and a large forehead.c
    The act of kissing releases masses of oxycotin, a “love potion” that helps couples bond. Through bonding, each lover’s face becomes personally attractive to the other.

    Everything is based on human attractiveness and the hair is one of the most important parts of that attractivess.Hair symbolizes youth and virility.İt's a basic instinct of women to choose the healtiest man to give their breed biggest chance to survive.
    Where does the article mention baldness as less attractive? And no hair isn't a sign of youth and virility. If it was, you wouldn't see 70 year old men with full head of hair and some men bald in their 20s. Hair is just overrated.

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    • Gandolf
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2011
      • 198

      #17
      Originally posted by baldozer
      Where does the article mention baldness as less attractive? And no hair isn't a sign of youth and virility. If it was, you wouldn't see 70 year old men with full head of hair and some men bald in their 20s. Hair is just overrated.
      Bro I think you're missing a very important piece here in that hairloss effects everybody differently. There is nothing inherently "wrong" with being bald, it is all in how it effects that particular person.

      For you personally, if sounds like you've accepted your hairloss and don't let it affect your self esteem to which I have to say THAT IS GREAT!!! You are probably so much happier and content with your life than the overwhelming majority of people here...

      But not everyone is wired like you. Not everyone is in the same position in life as you. You are essentially comparing apples to oranges.

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      • Gandolf
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2011
        • 198

        #18
        Originally posted by baldozer (from a different thread on this forum
        Also some girls are really brainwashed by the society to think of bald as bad. I was watching a video where when asked from a girl what she do not find attractive, she immediately said balding men, like balding men have some contagious disease.
        After my above post I just stumbled across this in another thread here. You, yourself, have listed one of the MANY reasons why so many people here find hairloss to be a negative trait.

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        • baldozer
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2012
          • 752

          #19
          Originally posted by Gandolf
          After my above post I just stumbled across this in another thread here. You, yourself, have listed one of the MANY reasons why so many people here find hairloss to be a negative trait.
          Ya, but if some of the girls find it bad, who cares! IMO one should not worry too much about what people think about you. Normally these are the girls who themselves have some flaws and got rejected by some man. They then show their bitterness by finding flaws in men, such as bald, short, fat etc. It just makes them feel powerful, that they can also reject men. I am not interested in such type of people. How in the world can someone say that Zidane is bad looking? There are tons of good looking bald dudes.

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          • BigThinker
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2012
            • 1507

            #20
            This is just too funny. That whole argument that hair is a sign of health is just beyond asinine. That's just the same as saying women maybe don't prefer big noses, red hair, skin tone because it's a sign of being unhealthy. I can't even believe I read that garbage. Some of you dudes are so miserable. If you spent half the time you do psycho-analyzing baldness on losing your virginity, you'd be too busy choosing which girl you want to see next to even notice your hairline.

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            • burtandernie
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2012
              • 1563

              #21
              Hair is a cosmetic thing so I mean the only thing is how it affects you. It does make you look older for your age and other guys with very rare good hair such as NW 0 at 35 or 40 makes them look really young just because most men go bald as they age so its rare because you get used to seeing most guys at that age balding.
              If you dont care or think you look however you look then get off this forums obviously your wasting your time then. Not everyone agrees that hair loss is pointless. The last two times I got my hair cut I heard the girls cutting hair comparing brothers to who had more hair or telling a kid dont worry he wont go bald because he had really thick hair. Its not a good thing in most peoples eyes.

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              • Gandolf
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2011
                • 198

                #22
                Originally posted by BigThinker
                This is just too funny. That whole argument that hair is a sign of health is just beyond asinine. That's just the same as saying women maybe don't prefer big noses, red hair, skin tone because it's a sign of being unhealthy. I can't even believe I read that garbage. Some of you dudes are so miserable. If you spent half the time you do psycho-analyzing baldness on losing your virginity, you'd be too busy choosing which girl you want to see next to even notice your hairline.
                There is a LOT of truth in what you say. The average person here worries way, WAY too much about their hair and let's it occupy an amount of space in their head that is just totally ridiculous...

                But notwithstanding that fact, the OP swung the pendulum just as far in the opposite direction in how eggregiously he has trivialized what everyone here is dealing with, which is why I chose to chime in. I can, and do, get girls despite my recession (which at a NW 2.5 isn't anywhere close to what some here are dealing with) but it's a hell of a lot harder than it used to be when I had NW 0 and otherwise my looks are virtually identical.

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                • baldozer
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2012
                  • 752

                  #23
                  Originally posted by burtandernie
                  Hair is a cosmetic thing so I mean the only thing is how it affects you. It does make you look older for your age and other guys with very rare good hair such as NW 0 at 35 or 40 makes them look really young just because most men go bald as they age so its rare because you get used to seeing most guys at that age balding.
                  If you dont care or think you look however you look then get off this forums obviously your wasting your time then. Not everyone agrees that hair loss is pointless. The last two times I got my hair cut I heard the girls cutting hair comparing brothers to who had more hair or telling a kid dont worry he wont go bald because he had really thick hair. Its not a good thing in most peoples eyes.
                  My boss is 38 and bald from crown, yet he looks 25, very young!

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                  • Soxfaninfl
                    Senior Member
                    • Mar 2012
                    • 148

                    #24
                    Some people look good bald and some don't. Vin Diesel looks good bald. If your happy with your look then that's great for you. Me personally I wouldn't look good bald. I've been lucky propecia has worked wonders for me, and I have a great head of hair.

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                    • burtandernie
                      Senior Member
                      • Nov 2012
                      • 1563

                      #25
                      Most men dont look good bald if your not a body builder or something. I could argue vin diesel or mostly any guy with a NW 0 styled hair would look a lot better that being bald.
                      If you had NW 0 hair you could always shave it down bald but like george in seinfeld said its like using a wheelchair for the hell of it. Whether your boss at 38 looks like he is 25 is very much opinion and hair loss does factor into it a lot even if people dont consciously think about it.
                      Well whether you value your hair or not I certainly like mine and want to keep it. If you dont I mean anyone can log out of the forums and never come back

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